(1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(3) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(4) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
(5) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
(6) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(7) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
(8) When histamine (5 micrograms) was injected into three different levels of the ventricular system, the magnitude and duration of the resulting increases in plasma epinephrine and glucose were in the following rank order: the third ventricle greater than aqueduct much greater than fourth ventricle.
(9) The rank order of potency of the peptides tested was VIP greater than rat (r) peptide histidine isoleucine = human (h) PHI greater than rGRF greater than bovine GRF = porcine PHI = VIP-(10-28) greater than hGRF greater than secretin greater than apamin greater than glucagon.
(10) In the latter case, the studies have resulted in a ranking of processes and treatment methods to protect the environment.
(11) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
(12) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(13) Using an explicit process, the Oregon Health Services Commission has completed the ranking of 714 condition-treatment pairs.
(14) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(15) On guinea-pig lung strip the rank order of potency was U-46619 greater than Wy17186 much greater than PGF2 alpha greater than PGE2 and responses to all agonists tested were blocked by AH19437 but not by SC-19220.
(16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
(17) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
(18) Hence, a priori haplotyping cannot exclude a particular CF mutation, but in combination with population genetic data, enables mutations to be ranked by decreasing probability.
(19) The rank order of potencies of the four AEDs was: (a) in young: CBZ > PHT > PhB > VPA; (b) in adult: CBZ > PhB > PHT > VPA.
(20) Patients clinically evaluated as effective tended to be so pathologically as well, as shown by Spearman's rank correlation test which gave a significant correlation between the clinical and pathological scores.
Rankling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rankle
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be foolish to bet that Saudi Arabia will exist in its current form a generation from now.” Memories of how the Saudis and Opec deliberately triggered an economic crisis in the west in retaliation for US aid to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur war still rankle.
(2) One thing that still rankles is Flav's decision to make some fast cash via reality TV.
(3) Barbara Shaw, the Alice Springs-based anti-Intervention campaigner, speaks of how welfare quarantining particularly rankles with Indigenous people who remembered the not-so-distant past: “There are a lot of people out there who, when they were young fellas, they only got paid rations.
(4) It's hard to say whether Sejusa's suspicions of an assassination plot are credible, but certainly Kainerugaba's rapid rise through the ranks to become a brigadier at only 39 has rankled many in the armed forces , where it is common to remain a major or captain even after 20 years of service.
(5) Yet the experience of being forced to change her outward appearance clearly rankled with her for years afterwards.
(6) The Times is famous for telling its staffers that they are nothing without the Times, and, after a while, that probably rankled Silver.
(7) Let's not forget that some of its voters were once communist supporters, and shoring up a corrupt anti-communist tycoon is bound to rankle them.
(8) Though cautious overall, some of his remarks, notably a critique of hereditary succession , must have rankled in Pyongyang.
(9) The failure to bring Biggs home and the subsequent jollity that the "slip-up" afforded the media continued to rankle.
(10) Similar criticism rankled when Britain pulled troops from Basra in 2007.
(11) By Tuesday, the Saudi obstruction had even begun to rankle with other members of the Arab League, campaign groups said.
(12) Thirty-three years later, the response to Thy Neighbor’s Wife still rankled Talese.
(13) It rankles in the sense that it sends out the wrong message,” Ouseley said.
(14) Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, said they were “unbecoming” for a president-elect and seemed to show that Trump was rankled by losing the popular vote.
(15) It does rankle, and a lot of people think I'm a single mum, but I've got to the stage where it's not worth arguing about.
(16) And it is his views on domestic violence, which he maintains is primarily an issue of disadvantage, not misogyny, which seemed to rankle most.
(17) "I think that's why its problematic elements rankle – not because I'm 'offended', but because it seems lazy, repetitious.
(18) As very young novelists, both wrote books – Drabble's first, A Summer Bird-Cage (1965) , and Byatt's second, The Game (1967) – about rivalrous sisters, which, more than 40 years on, still rankles, at least for Drabble (Byatt apologised for The Game , she says now).
(19) As the discussion devolved into a confrontation the senator, clearly rankled, offered testy responses to questions and jeers from the crowd.
(20) As this fact becomes not an idea but a reality – as we move into Act Three – it seems highly likely that the basic unfairness of this is going to become more and more evident, and more and more rankling.